Donald L. Klein, Ph.D., ’49
Inventor
The leader of the team at Bell Telephone Laboratories that created the polysilicon Field-Effect Transistor in 1966, Dr. Klein’s advance has been the key to very large scale integrated circuits and the advancement of computers and communications technologies. The innovative breakthrough was to employ polycrystalline silicon in a self-aligned process to replace the previously used thin metal films. It has become the standard process for manufacturing all silicon semiconductor memory and microprocessor circuit chips.
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Stuart Kessler ’47
Stuart Kessler '47, influential accounting industry leader, was inducted into the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Kai Martinez '05 dances at the 94th Academy Awards to "Dos Oruguitas" from the animated film Encanto, where she served as Animation Reference Consultant.
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Jeanine Basquiat Heriveaux ’85 was a Brooklyn Tech student when Jean-Michel Basquiat, her big brother, made it big in the art world. Now she and her sister, co-administrators of the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate, are taking visitors inside a new exhibition of more than 200 rarely shown paintings, drawings, and objects
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